Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:22:07 -0700 From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) To: ctodd@chrismiller.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting encrypted Message-ID: <200409072022.i87KM7Kf049770@wattres.Watt.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.58L.0409071259510.20376@vp4.netgate.net>
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In article <Pine.BSI.4.58L.0409071259510.20376@vp4.netgate.net> you write: > >Has any work been done to boot from an encrypted filesystem, or otherwise >modify the loader to support GBDE with a "compiled-in" passphrase? The >purpose would be to prevent reverse engineering of an appliance based on >FreeBSD. Thoughts, ideas? Having the password compiled in to something that's necessarily clear-text on the same media? You're not adding anything resembling a challenge for someone who's really interested in reverse-engineering your system. Any user (I won't call such a person *acker) incapable of getting around such a thing probably won't be trying to reverse-engineer it anyhow. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32 Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices...
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